”Wake up honey, we are visiting grandma again today.” Haah… as of today, it’s my sixth month on this world and let me tell you, being a baby is truly mentally exhausting. My imaginary schedule contains roughly 16 hours of sleep a day with 4 hours reserved for playing mom and dad, and the rest for socializing with other toddlers my age.

But do not misunderstand! Every moment I spend with mom makes me feel happier than any memory of my past life. I grew up in an orphanage but I did have many precious friends but we got separated as we didn’t get to the same high schools and I was way too shy to try making new friends so my life after middle school was just coming back home from school to play games or surf internet…

Enough about my depressing previous life and more about my new happy life! We’re going to visit my mother’s grandparents today and why am I so excited for it? Grandma dotes on me even more than mom and she mixes my feeding bottle with some weird powder when mom isn’t watching! I don’t know what the powder Is but it makes me sleep and my whole body feels refreshed when I wake up! For grandma’s sake, I hope mom never finds about the powder… One time mom almost killed dad by not cooking him anything for a week and giving him cold stares every time she saw him, just because he forgot to feed me when it was his turn!

Hmm… As I was resting on my grandma’s lap I started wondering how long my lifespan is since my grandma still looks like she is in her mid-twenties and mom looks like she just graduated from high school… In the novels I read back on earth it varied from a hundreds to thousands of years. I don’t how I would react from hearing that I would live for thousands of years, I mean, after the few first centuries you would run out of new things to do!

“Has she said any words yet?”

Words eh? That reminds me, I decided to slowly start speaking from words like mom and dad in 6 months when I’m 1 year old , to fully talking by the time I reach 3. I feel like mom would get a heart attack if I suddenly started demanding more white powder from grandma when I can’t even walk yet!

“No, so far she only recognizes her own name but that’s already impressive for her age.”

“Kekeke, not only is she talented in magic but also is gifted with high natural intelligence! This grandfather is satisfied!”

Grandpa is weird… He seems very energetic and every time he talks he laughs and hits hit thigh. Both of my grandparents were blessed with good looks as my mother is a spitting image of my grandmother. Dark eyes and stunning golden hair with skin paler than snow on Christmas day morning. The image in my brain about her slender fingers on her seductive lips and passionate eyes staring at my… NO! I can’t have such lewd thoughts about my own mother! As for my grandfather, he has green eyes and brown short hair combed to right side. Sharp facial features and muscular arms indicating his career as a guard on the villages borders, fighting the monsters and executing kidnappers getting too close.

Capturing and selling elves to slave traders will make you enough money to live the rest of your life in luxury, that is only if you have a short lifespan of 80 years old like humans and most beastkin races. Since all elves are born with affinity for 2 magic, one always being healing and the second one being any magic fitting for combat, like wind or fire magic, they can be used for various purposes when they’re forced to wear a slave collar. They can be forced to fight for you, like you were just another Pokémon card in your collection, satisfy your sexual desires as if you were a prostitute only born for breeding or complete guild quests for you, if you deem the slave not worthy of anything else.

Slave collars are literally chokers imbued with mana (mana is the very essence of magic which is used for casting spells) which tightens around your neck until you can’t breathe if you try to disobey your master. Trying to leave without your master’s permission or attacking your master is also not possible when wearing a slave collar. I sure hope I won’t ever be forced to wear one of those… Kuk! I didn’t just jinx myself did i?gic but alsoat' of like she just got out of highschool res every time she saw him, just b a

A-anyways, that’s enough about slaves for now. Where were we… Ah right! My grandpa’s most noticeable features are his ears, which are much longer and sharper than me ears! Mine are small and cute, without too much difference from human ears, while his big sharp ears point outward!

My grandpa lived originally in another elf tribe deeper in the forest but he met grandma when he was sent for reinforcements against level. 120 monsters invading this town. After successfully defending the town he got into a deeper relationship with grandma and moved here or something like that…

After one year of sleeping and playing with mom…

Currently I’m waiting with my grandparents for mom to get home from the healer’s house who delivered me too. Not long ago she said my new sibling would be born and left with dad to the healer. I’m standing on a chair in our living room. watching people pass by trough the window, excited to see what my new sister / brother will look like. Then I noticed dad and mom following him while carrying a basket.

“Puuuu!” I made weird sounds to inform grandma of them arriving. She seemed to understand what I was saying with no difficulties whatsoever and jumped from the couch to open the door as fast as possible. Why didn’t you take me with you grandma?!

Apparently the baby is a he, judging by the conversation… It’s been 5 minutes since they came back and I still haven’t seen what my brother even looks like since the basket is above me and no one is paying attention to me!

“Puuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!” I protested and cried out to them to let me see him.

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“Oh right, you want to play with your brother as quickly as possible, don’t you luna?” Mom teased me as she sat down and placed my brother on her lap.

“His name is Shin, treat him nicely, luna!”

Huh… Is that really my brother? He looks nothing like me! He is like a copy of dad with his bronze-coloured skin and below average facial features while I have paler skin and prettier face than a certain goddess of beauty!

Kuk, I wanted a handsome brother who all ladies his age would fall for and then reject them while saying I would be the only for him! Wait no… that would be bad.

A-anyways, I guess I’ll be happy, he’s still my baby brother and I’ll take good care of him when we grow up! And this means dad will have someone to teach our family’s secret combat skills since I literally don’t have any talent for combat and I will run out of breath in about ten seconds of running when I grow up. Maybe I should have used some of the points I spent on healing magic for basic stats like endurance, strength, or intelligence…

4 more years later…

I’m staring at my image reflected on the lake’s surface...

“C-cute… Ehehe” I giggled as I caressed my dress’ helm.

“What are you laughing at luna”?

“Oh, it’s nothing. Nee, mama, how long until we arrive?”

Currently we are on our way to a beast-kin city to search for books about space-time magic to help me understand how to utilize the effectiveness of my inventory. Right now I can only carry about as much as our luggage in my inventory, but my affinity with this magic is S, the second highest rating possible so there should be many more tricks for me to squeeze out before I’m satisfied with it.

Mom has been taking me to priests every afternoon to practice basic healing, curing and detoxification spells! So far I’ve only learned heal and it took me 3 months longer than usual to learn it! But the qualities of the results are also greater by a tenfold than the average and I don’t need to say cringy lines when casting spells. Apparently S+ and S ranks don’t have the need for reciting the spell names for activating them. I’m confident I’ll be able to quickly learn cure and detoxification when I get back to practicing them…

“It’s only 2 more days darling.” Mom retorted and sighed like she was tired of someone constantly asking her something.

It’s been about a month since mom and i started our journey on a horse from home to hyria, the bestkin city. By the way, Shin’s affinity for healing magic is only E but his fire magic is rank S! He has been training with father every chance he gets and he can already cast fist sized fire bolts. I ignited his passion to learn by rewarding him with a hug every time dad said he deserved one. Fufufu, I will make him my personal slave from young age!

On our journey we have visited smaller villages full of adventurers and for the first time I met beastkin people! Some had adorable bunny ears while some had cat ears! Altough I did see some humans they weren’t obviously as exciting since I used to be one just 5 years ago.

The different races all were wearing enchanted armor and swords, revealing they were indeed adventurers. Most of them were taking rest from grinding the dungeon which entrance is located at a huge mountain we can see from the outer edge of our forest.

Dungeons are a good source of income for adventurers confident of their ability, since they drop goods varying from high leveled equipment, high quality mana stones (mana stones power showers, toilets and furnaces depending on the type and quality of them) and lastly pills which can permanently raise your basic stats or teach you new skills.

All dungeons are said to have 100 floors and the higher you can, the higher the level of the monsters and quality of drops. Max level for all living beings is 250.

Only one dungeon has ever been conquered, when the hero and his party were summoned 60 years ago. According to the books back home all party members of his party received loot including a sword more powerful than the holy sword crafted by the god of this world to help the weaker races against the overwhelmingly stronger demons. The sword would be later known as ‘Excalibur, The slayer of demons kings’… I feel like I have heard that name somewhere before but it doesn’t matter.

What matters right now is the village in the horizon. The night will arrive soon so we are eating and sleeping in an inn there.

As we left our horse at the stables, we entered the inn and i instantly felt the stares of all the people dining there. I don’t blame then, it’s only natural for them the stare at us in wonder since elves rarely leave their forests. After paying for one night and dinner I saw a hooded young man with a black choker staring at me and not averting his gaze even after directly making eye contact. I asked mom to take a look at him but as mom finally caught sight of him, he was finishing his drink and getting up to leave while acting like nothing happened. Mom joked that he was just admiring my cute appearance but I had a feeling it was more than that…

We finished our meal and headed to our room on the second floor of the inn. As we were finishing up our daily snuggling ritual, we heard loud banging on our door!

“Eh, who would knock on our door at this time of night” Mom wondered as she put on appropriate clothes and went to open the door.

“You are elves right? Our party’s healer died and we have one heavily injured person needing immediate healing! Please, you need to help us, we can pay you well!” A bald and muscular man awaited on the other side of the door with a desperate expression as he pleaded us with teary eyes.

“I understand, luna, you can go ahead and sleep and I’ll be back soon”

“Okay, good night mom!”

“Goodnight”

Mom’s warm smile turned into a serious expression as she left and locked the door. As I was thinking about the city we will arrive at tomorrow with a grin on my face, I quickly fell asleep.

“Wake up kid” Huh? As I opened my eyes to see a hooded man with a choker on his neck, shaking me by my shoulders.

“Who ar-“

“Paralyze”

But before I could ask him who he cast a spell on me and i suddenly couldn’t talk or move my limbs anymore. I immediately realized what was happening as he grabbed me by my waist and and placed me on his right shoulder. I could only feel my eyelids quiver and tears drop from my eyes as if begging him to leave me be. He didn’t notice or maybe he pretended not to notice my plead as he jumped down from the window to ground level. After landing he immediately started running toward a gate located at the south side of the village. As we approached the gate I saw a guard waiting for us in silver-colored suit of armor while holding a horse on a leash.

“Eehh?! I thought you were only joking when you said you found an elf child… congratulations! That should be worth millions!”

“Yeah…” He coldly took the leash from his hands and walked the horse outside of the gate

As he was placing me in his lap after getting on the horse I heard him sniffle and apologize in low voice.

“I-I’m so sorry… This worthless older brother here got in a trouble with some debt and I was forced to repay by using my stealth skills to kidnap innocent people for the local slave dealer… You’re both the first one and last one I will kidnap, you’re more worth than all the slaves combined back at our base.”

I could only silently sit still in his lap as my tears blurred my vision and the sound of hooves at full speed filled the surroundings of the road illuminated by moonlight.